There's very little innocence in Martin Scorsese's return to 19th century New York.

In 1993, Scorsese filmed Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's story of life among the privileged. In Gangs of New York, Scorsese peers into a section of New York City that Wharton's characters would never have visited.
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What's the motion picture equivalent of a novel you just can't put down? Well, whatever it is -- can't avert your gaze, maybe? -- that's the experience of seeing Gangs Of New York, the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese epic about Manhattan in the 19th century.

Raw, violent and completely engrossing, Gangs Of New York is all about the racial, religious and financial chaos that marked the city's earlier days. Like anything's changed.
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